Pornography, should it be banned?

[Don Savik]

Objectifies women?!?!??!?!?!?!?

Ask him if he has chiseled abs and a 6 foot penis.

Because I guarantee 90% of us guys don't.

 

[ElPatron]

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You're clinging on saying that making things illegal won't result on anything. I am saying I don't want more things illegal.

But crime isn't "airtight". Prostitution, forced or volunteered, is related to pornography (voluntary or forced). If you find prostitutes, you find pimps who want to defend their territory and you have guns. You have people making "favors" to politicians and the authorities.

 

[Smiley Face]

Basically the only thing you really need to say is "Hey, remember that time when the United States banned alcohol and nobody ever drank again and there wasn't a total rise in organized crime, corruption, and violence?"

Wow, I do applaud you. That is a perfect way to counter those arguments. You sir win an internetz.

I concur. When you're looking at any sweeping proposition like that, it isn't enough to say "what would happen if we did it?", you have to say "can we do it?", and in the case of pornography, the answer is no. When you try to ban something so ingrained in culture, and something that is so EASY to manufacture, you can't actually do it - at least, not without creating 1984-world, but I think that's going a little far to stop the evils of porn. If you can't effectively ban Alcohol, a substance, or even today, if you can't effectively ban other illegal drugs IN THIS DAY AND AGE, which have to be produced, how can you ban something for which you only need a camera? Wait, never mind, it would be outsourced, and then, assuming the ban withstood the outcry of job loss, it would just be a problem of preventing distribution, which, again, is pretty damn hard.

 

[backinthepresentfuture]

taking away porn would make most peoples already pathetic lives, even worse.